Thursday, March 12, 2026

Brief thoughts on Your Attention Please (2026) SXSW 2026


This is a look at how social media is changing our lives and our brains.

This is a very good look at the damage social media is doing to us, and changing our perspective from real interactions to the fake ones measured by clicks and likes. It's a film that clearly lays out what is going on and how we should be handing the devil we all turn to for comfort and likes. Its also a film that shows us how the universe is turning so that all that matters is if  we are paying attention to whatever or whomever is on our screens

As good as this film is as a one stop shop, it' suffers from the feeling that we've been here before. I say that because the film brings together every thought questioning social media and the drive for likes that you would have to be criminally unaware to find all of this shocking.  That is not a big knock against the film, more a warning that as a lover of documentaries on social issues not all of this is new.

My quibbles aside, if you want to scare the uninformed about the problems of likes and social media, this film  is going to be the thing to have them watch.

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